Details of limited liability companies and branches within the European Economic Area (EEA)

Since 2023, trade registers in countries within the European Economic Area (EEA) have exchanged register details of companies with each other.

We register the exchanged details we receive in the Finnish Trade Register.

Exchange of information concerns branches and Finnish limited liability companies in the countries within the EEA and companies corresponding to Finnish limited liability companies. See which countries belong to the EEA.

Please note that a company cannot affect how its details are displayed in European trade registers. Go to “See legislation for more information” below.

This page includes the following information:

The Finnish Trade Register receives details of branches for Finnish limited liability companies abroad

The Trade Register receives details of Finnish limited liability companies (Ltd) and public limited liability companies (plc) when the branch’s domicile is within the EEA and the branch’s domestic register has sent us the details.

We register the branch details we have received in the Finnish company’s details.

We send details of Finnish branches to foreign registers

Reciprocally, we send details of Finnish branches to the other countries within the EEA when a foreign business operator’s (main company’s) domicile is within the EEA and its company form corresponds to a Finnish limited liability company.

The registrars in the other EEA countries are responsible for registering the details we send to them in the foreign business operator’s details.

The Finnish Trader Register receives details of people responsible for a foreign business operator’s branch registered in Finland

Registers in the other EEA countries send details about people responsible for a foreign business operator to the Finnish Trade Register when its company form corresponds to a Finnish limited liability company and it has a branch in Finland.

We receive details of the people responsible, who have been reported in the bodies of a foreign business operator or who have been removed from bodies. We record the details in the Trade Register information about the branch.

Please note that the details that the Finnish Trade Register receives of people responsible can be incomplete. This is why we advise Finnish branches to report any changes in the details of people responsible. Go to our instructions: Changes in the details concerning people and bodies of a branch.

What details do we record and send to other EEA countries?

The PRH and the trade registers in the other EEA countries record and send to each other the following details of branches and business operators:

• Name
• Registration number
• Home country
• EUID code The EUID code is a European code for limited liability companies and branches.

We receive the following details of people responsible for foreign business traders from other EEA countries:

• Name
• Nationality
• Date of birth
• Home address of a person living outside Finland.

How do I know when the details have been recorded in the Trade Register?

When a trade register in other EEA country has sent us company details, a Finnish company or branch is informed by email that the Trade Register has received a notification.

The message is sent if a company has reported a valid email address to the Trade Register or has ordered a follow-up service for its details. Read more about how you can monitor the changes in your company details.

After the details are registered, they are displayed on Trade Register extracts concerning the Finnish company or branch. We will send an extract of the registration to the company by post.

We will save a separate document of the registration as part of the company’s Trade Register details.

Anyone is entitled to obtain information about the entries made in the Finnish Trade Register, as well as the filed notifications and their enclosures. You can purchase most Trade Register documents of companies via our Information Service Virre.

Read European company details online

You can read and search for register details of companies on the Business Registers Interconnection System (BRIS) maintained by the European e-Justice Portal. Go to the company search of the European e-Justice Portal.Open link in a new tab

Trade Register details and services processed from register details are provided by several companies. Read more about our partners’ services.

See legislation for more information

Sending and registering the details of branches and limited liability companies are based on section 20 c of the Finnish Trade Register Act. Read more about the Trade Register Act in the Finnish online database for legislative and other judicial information (in Finnish or in Swedish).Open link in a new tab